ANTH 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lithotomy Position, Biomedicine, American Hospital Of Paris
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Excerpt from stranger in the village of the sick. Intersection of a diagnoses coming from the culture of biomedicine, meeting his background as an anthropologist trained in songhay sorcery. Biology is a snapshot, situated in culture/economics/politics. Cancer diagnoses looks very different in biomedicine vs. were it to come in the songhay society where sorcery is prominent. He gets diagnosed in western medical terms, with a prognosis( non-hodgkin"s lymphoma), recommended chemotherapy etc. But he also wants to integrate his training in songhay healing. Calls on genji how bush spirit energy for healing. Lock & nguyen, local biologies and human difference . Biomedicine scrutinizes the human body, making it subject to classification and. Has been medicalized in the us, but is considered completely normal in japan. No specific word for a hot flash lol. In japan it"s a generalized condition referring to both men and women and the aging process. Hormone replacement therapy much less readily prescribed there.
